You really just have to laugh at the Tampa Bay offense. 4 players tying up about $43M in salaray, 3 of which are Guards, putting those 4 players at more expensive than the entire Raiders and Colts offenses. How are Tampa Bay fans not irrate over this? What a joke.

You really just have to laugh at the Tampa Bay offense. 4 players tying up about $43M in salaray, 3 of which are Guards, putting those 4 players at more expensive than the entire Raiders and Colts offenses. How are Tampa Bay fans not irrate over this? What a joke.

We had/have a lot of cap space, so Dominik typically frontloads deals he signs because it would be pointless to have that much cap space and not use it. Both Carl Nicks and Vincent Jackson also restructure their contracts during the last few weeks of the season. Nicks' cap figure will go from $15.436 M this year to $3.072M in 2013 while Jackson's will go from $15.43M to $3.472 M. Meanwhile, Davin Joseph cap hit will be $6M next season instead of $9.5M. While Jeremy Zuttah's (who plays center, not guard) contract doesn't have a similar frontloaded structure, he's only getting guaranteed money during the first two years of his contract. After next year, he can be easily cut without any cap penalties.

So to sumarize things, the Bucs spent a lot of money this year because they had the cap space to do so. By doing so, they saved money for the next few seasons. If/When they cut Quincy Black and Eric Wright, they have about $40M in cap room this offseason. Nicks and Jackson figures are huge, but you have to pay to get talent like that and those figures will go down. That's what Bucs fans have no worries about their cap management.

You really just have to laugh at the Tampa Bay offense. 4 players tying up about $43M in salaray, 3 of which are Guards, putting those 4 players at more expensive than the entire Raiders and Colts offenses. How are Tampa Bay fans not irrate over this? What a joke.

This is a really cool interactive web design. If you set the Colts offense up against the Broncos defense, it looks like a pee-wee team playing a highschool team lol. The Colts are paying 6.5m for their receivers, and that's their most expensive position on offense. The cheapest position on the Broncos is their defensive tackles at 5 million.